Baby Blankets

Good morning my friends and a happy weekend to you all.

 Do hope you are keeping warm this cold July!

This morning I have been enjoying a new rainbow ripple

 on my hook and I'm loving the new shade of

 Tomato

from Stylecraft Yarns in their Special DK.

 It fits so well in my rainbow between lipstick and spice!

Baby blankets are always such fun to make and sell so fast.

This week I've made a rainbow granny square

 which is now on its way to a new home.

The rainbow interspersed with parchment make a very attractive blanket.

the colour recipe I have used is

Stylecraft Special DK in

mustard gold spice tomato claret raspberry plum grape

 violet lobelia denim storm blue sage pistachio lime and parchment

and sold a pretty pastel ripple

 which is soon to be keeping a new baby girl warm.

colour Recipe

Stylecraft Special DK

 in

sherbet apricot wisteria spring green lemon candyfloss and cream

You may be interested to know

 that I always keep ready made blankets for sale in my

 Etsy shop,

 So when you suddenly need a new baby gift do take a look,

 I have many colours and various sizes in stock.

 However if you wish to order a specially made blanket

 in any pattern or colours please email me at

 thepatchworkheartuk@gmail.com

 and I will be delighted to send you my price list and make one for you

It's always so good to see babies modelling my blankets

 and this week I've been delighted to receive 2 photos

 from happy customers

 who gave me permission to share these with you.

Last time I wrote

 I left you with a teasing glance

 at some pretty pastel grannies that I was working on.

I used 10 pretty shades of

Stylecraft Special DK

the colour recipe is

spring green

pistachio

lemon

parchment

stone

apricot

soft peach

cream

cloud blue

and

duck egg

As always I work in a production line fashion

 and make all the round in the same colour at one time.

 This increases your speed as you are not changing balls of yarn

 or wondering which colour to pick.

165 mini grannies meant a lot of ends to sew in,

but a wonderful discovery at Lidl of their Big Hit chocolate peanuts

made it all very yummy!

so this really was a labour of love

 and I'm afraid I wont be making another for a long while!

You will notice that I alternate the side I work from on my grannies.

This is done to avoid that awful granny square twist.

you can read a tutorial about how I make my granny squares

HERE

For this blanket I chose to join the squares as I made the 4th round

 so there is no background colour

. I really like this look but of course again it means lots of ends.

 Unfortunately if you want colour you have to have ends!

If you are interested in trying this joining method

 you will enjoy the good tutorial by Lucy at Attic 24

called

Joining Squares As You Go  

The blanket soon comes together

 and then it's the exciting time to choose a border.

I used 27 from the book

Around the Corner

by Edie Eckman

this is a great book which I highly recommend.

 It is clearly written in US terms

 and also has very good charts to follow.

This blanket was a special commission for a baby soon to arrive,

using a neutral colour palette so it is suitable for both boy or girl.

The border is made in the gorgeous new shade of

Duck Egg

which Stylecraft have recently added to the range of Special DK.

Tadaa!

A beautiful blanket that I was sad to part with.

 One day I must make one to keep for Patchwork House!

Wishing you all a happy restful weekend

Heather

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